Tonight's league fixture (1/12/10) with Chipperfield Corinthians has been postponed as expected due to a snow covered and frozen County Ground pitch.

Everyone at the Club would like to congratulate 1st Team Manager Scott Grant and wife Michelle on the birth of their baby girl Eden May Grant.

Baby Eden was born at 2.45pm on Saturday afternoon and she weighed a healthy 8lb 7oz.  Scott informs me that Mother and Baby are doing very well.

Baldock Town Letchworth FC has a new online home!

The current website will continue to be updated whilst the new one is brought up-to-date.

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There was little in the way of Premier Division action on Saturday with the Herts Senior Centenary Trophy taking centre stage, but there were still fourteen goals scored in the two Premier Division matches played.

Fellow strugglers Bovingdon and Standon & Puckeridge met at Green Lane and the hosts were victorious 7-3.  The result left the visitors second bottom and moved Bovingdon four points clear of the bottom three.  In the other game, Hinton followed up last week's win at The County Ground with a 4-0 win over Sarratt.  They are now up to third and sit six points behind leaders Letchworth Garden City Eagles with two matches in hand.

In the Herts Senior Centenary Trophy there were eight first round ties featuring eight HSCL clubs.  The league was guaranteed at least three spots in Round Two with three all-HSCL clashes.  We were obviously one of those, after our 4-0 win over Chipperfield, but elsewhere Sandridge Rovers won 3-2 at Croxley Guild, whilst Eagles progressed by the same scoreline against Cuffley after extra-time thanks to goals from Harry Holland, Lee Pateman and Manager Roy Boon.

The result of the day had to be at Hoddesdon Town where a Ryan Denys hat-trick gave Harpenden Rovers a 3-2 win after extra time.  There was no such scalp for Codicote though who went down 6-0 at home to Wodson Park.  Anthony Anstead was on target four times for the visitors.

In the other non-HSCL ties there were wins for Harpenden Town, London Lions and Berkhamsted over Welwyn Garden City, Sun Postal Sports and Tring Corinthians respectively.

Our Reserve side may have been in Chairman's Cup action, but there were still three Reserve Division One matches on Saturday.  Leaders Bovingdon were held by Wormley to a 1-1 draw at Church Lane.  Chipperfield Corinthians moved up into second and reduced the gap to three points with a 3-1 win over basement boys Croxley Guild, whilst Codicote climbed to fourth with a 3-1 at Metropolitan Police Bushey.

The Ressies took control of Chairman's Cup Group B with a 2-1 win at Sarratt, whilst in the other group match Lemsford and Knebworth played out a 3-3 draw.

The biggest winners of the day were Ware Youth who thumped Panshanger 9-1 in the Intermediate Division.

Scott Grant's 1st Team face a tough looking tie in Round Two of the Herts Senior Centenary Trophy following yesterday's 4-0 win over Chipperfield Corinthians at the County Ground.

They travel to former Herts Senior County League rivals London Lions, who progressed into the Second Round with a 3-2 win over Sun Postal Sports.

The match will be played on Saturday 27th November 2010 with the victors earning a home time in the last eight with Kings Langley or Lemsford.

The Club's latest "Town Lotto" draw was held on Saturday 30th October 2010 in the White Hart in Hitchin Street, Baldock.

To find out who were September's lucky winners and the current subscribers, please click the following link http://www.baldocktownfc.co.uk/col.asp?cid=59&caid=100.

Subsciption to "Town Lotto" is ongoing, so if you haven't already done so, you can join for just £4.00 per month by contacting us at info@baldocktownfc.co.uk or call Steve West on 07967 169790 for more details.

For this small monthly amount, you are not only supporting the future of your local club, but also getting the opportunity to win a cash prize on a monthly basis.  Remember, the more people that take part, the bigger the cash prizes!

Scott Grant's 1st Team made it back-to-back victories for the first time this season after seeing off the challenge of Sandridge Rovers in the Aubrey Cup at the County Ground.

The impressive Ashley Fitton and skipper Anthony Bowskill scored the goals that fired Town into the next round when they will host Division One outfit Bushey Rangers for a place in the last eight.

As for the Reserves, they went goal crazy at Metropolitan Police Bushey in the Reserve Cup.  Sam Crow and Wayne Blows put them 2-0 ahead at the break, but the arrival of Jack Harman at the interval sparked a goalfest as he made the third for Blows and scored the fourth himself within two minutes of the restart.

Adam Shelley and Gary Christie took the score to six before substitute James Graham rounded off a superb move to net with his first touch.  Harman grabbed a second before Blows completed his hat-trick and Lee Rusbridge cracked in goal number ten before Blows rounded off proceedings with a tap-in to make it 11-0.

The under 21's unfortunately didn't play after opponents Knebworth were unable to field a team for the second time in four weeks.

Baldock's preparations for tomorrow's trip to high-flying Harpenden Rovers were dealt a blow last night when forward Jack Gregson departed for local rivals Letchworth Garden City Eagles.

Gregson 23, skippered the side up until last weekend's FA Vase defeat to Holyport and had been something of a talismanic figure in his spell with the Club.

However, Eagles manager Roy Boon was alerted by news that Gregson had become unhappy at Baldock and made his move.  Town Manager Scott Grant, who despite not wanting to lose his best players, conceded that if a player was unhappy it would be best for all parties if he moved on.

Meanwhile, Grant has set his sights on helping Baldock up the table after a run of one win in their opening six league games which currently sees them languishing in the bottom two of the Premier Division table.

Newly-promoted Harpenden Rovers currently occupy second in the table, so Baldock will have their work cut out at Brickfield Lane.  Grant is also looking to confirm a new addition to the ranks for tomorrow's encounter with Jake Mongston and Josh Furness having now returned to University. 

After the highs of the FA Vase last weekend, it was a mixed bag of results for our three teams on Saturday.  The 1st Team were unable to build any momentum from the win over Basildon United as they were held to a 1-1 draw at lowly Bovingdon.

Jack Gregson was on target for Baldock, but a second half goal from the hosts meant it is now just one win in their opening six league games for Scott Grant's men.

The Reserves picked up their first league win of the season, but left it late to finally see off a spirited Chipperfield Corinthians at Gaunts Way.  Tom Young netted his first goal for the Club following up well to finish a Gary Christie strike which came back off the post.

Baldock then missed a hatful of chances to put the game to bed with both Sam Crow and Christie guilty of missing numerous opportunities.  The visitors cause wasn't helped by a red card fifteen minutes from time when one of their players was dismissed for foul and abusive language.

However, Chipperfield looked to have salvaged a draw when Redgwell climbed unchallenged to head home almost their only attempt at goal with five minutes remaining.  The visitors then looked like they could steal the points as Baldock threw bodies forward, but in the final minute Barry Laurence looped home a far post header to give Baldock a much-needed victory.

The under 21's met Panshanger in the President's Cup.  Manager Richard Poleszuk was forced into playing forward Aaron Slack in goal and Assistant Manager Pete Berry in a bare XI after being severely hampered by player unavailability.

After being 4-0 down at the break, Dan Chapman got one back before the hosts increased their lead.  However, after swapping Slack with Rob Badrick between the sticks, Baldock made a real fight of it with a brace from Slack and one from James Ward reducing the score to 5-4.  Unfortunately, the tiring legs took its toll and Panshanger held their nerve to run out 6-4 winners in the end.